NZ Illustrator and Writer
Helen Taylor
Kakapo Dance
Penguin Books 2014
$19.99pb 32pp
ISBN 978 0 1475 0601 0
Themes: Language/ New Zealand birds
Kakapo can’t coo or glide, or chirp or twirl, or hop or
chime or whistle or waddle – he’s too fat and heavy and his voice is too deep.
But he can join in with the other birds in a much more solid way – with a thud
and ching and a tumble and a shuffle and a BOOM!! Another special book (see the entry last week for The song of Kauri) where the sights and
sounds and smells of the New Zealand forest come alive in front of you. There
are mouth-watering words to roll around your tongue and the pictures of the
Kakapo show him to be one of the most endearing of our native birds.
Preschool up/ Age 4 up
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